vices Association meet conference at Southport.
*to oppose and campaign against ship. any form or poncies waich mean ards". Within a month, the NEC Secretary Ken Thomas's proposal them of Phase 2.
That vote was rushed through at sive by the Government. and union bureaucracy. members found themselves com- more into effect.
year, the overwhelming Contract is reflected in a motion with support from 61 branches. Supporters of a continued Conmuster only LaTE branches behind their resolution. Eight motions condemn the holding of the Phase 2 ballot in June the 1976.
most important items agenda. Composite Motion which call for automatic rises to by Catholic Action. keep pace witn ine cost or lving.
watered down ine wording in tne for interm claims... to maintain and improve the standard Civil Service Executive Commitdiscredited Pay hesearch clerical grades. ine leadersnip Is attempting to cover its bankruptcy by removing only possibic alternative.
The NEC's record in the fight against public spending cuts is even more snaddy tman on pay. September national series rales to Dune une campain was used instead by full-timers NEC members to sabotare NEC's original proposal for strike acuon on? novemper By October even a programme of limited industrial action hac proved capable, in the membership's rolling DHSS staff cuts. But now the NEXT WEEK 1,300 delegates ment of Employment to carry the representing 230,000 members can by banning the collection of Civil and Public Ser- Government statistics. And when a in lock-out was threatened the response of the NEC was outright capitulation. campaign lay in ruins, and the Last year's conference directed union's credibility was shattered the National Executive Committee before management and memberThe left NEC members' excuse unemployment, public expenditure that there was little support for the cuts. and reduced living stand- statistics ban is given the lie by a severe censure motion (Composite had accepted General 1407) from 28 branches 3JOH branches. to ballot branches on acceptance should also support motion 1437 Irom Mancnester Dob, wnien calls for no confidence in the General the height of a propaganda offen- Secretary and his deputy, Alastair media Graham.
CPSA Composite 1368 demands militant campaign against mitted to accepting their next pay cuts. Its demands for a total ban rise nine months before it came on overtime and work-sharing are correce out does nortake is cal for all-out public mood for rejection of the Social beyond the 'Day of Action' much loved bored racy: Idiverefore tails to diversion reinforce the demand for a local nine pubic sector allance but should nevertheless be supported.
Conference will decide whether leadership 'Future pay policy' is one of the or returns to one of the most the trade union movement, led by brings together zo motons, 14 ol trucina supporters anu mispica possible to give support to a Broad But bureaucratic manoeuvres have Left slate which was drawn up by a closed caucus of NEC members, in composite so that it merely calls defiance of the rejection of bureaucratic restraints on the Broad of Left passed at its inaugural conterence last month Delegates should therefore cast becomes clear when one looks at their votes first for the candidates Redder Tape, rank and file organisation of the tee. This calls for a return to the union; and secondly only for those left-wingers with an open commitwhich institutionalises low pay for ment to acceptance of discipline from the Broad Left conference.
This means a rejection of rightwing opportunists like Womersley on the BL slate, and a vote in the presidential contest for Tape cameloate McGrath against BL sen sever In the election for the TUC and delegation. all delegates INC cast their votes for Tito Vallejo, chairperson or ine union s coraltar branch, which has been locked out for six months bv the Ministry of Defence. Such support would be back inactivity and the disgraceful recthe TUC OTE
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The reason for this chicanery Composite 26, put forward by the supported